When uninformed chief counsels attack: Google blows it on patents

The Houston Chronicle’s Dwight Silverman reports: “Clearly, Google’s David Drummond, the search giant’s top lawyer, was missing a few bits of evidence when he posted an uncharacteristically aggressive entry on the company’s official blog. In that item, he went after Apple and Microsoft for ganging up on Google using “bogus” patents. … There’s just one problem. Google, it turns out, was invited by Microsoft to bid on the Novell patents but turned down the offer. Shortly after the Drummond’s blog post went live, Microsoft’s own chief counsel revealed this via Twitter.” Read more at seattlepi.com.